2022 Books & Reports

Report

Rebuilding Ukraine: Principles and policies

• Yuriy Gorodnichenko
• Ilona Sologoub
• Beatrice Weder Di Mauro

7 Dec 2022

• Ukraine Initiative

Chapters

• Rebuilding Ukraine: Principles and policies: Introduction
• Ukraine’s EU integration
• Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction and governance reforms
• Anti-corruption policies in the reconstruction of Ukraine
• Ukraine’s business environment
• International trade and foreign direct investment
• The reconstruction and development of Ukraine’s financial sector after the war
• Rebuilding Ukraine’s energy sector: Challenges and Opportunities
• Rebuilding Ukrainian transport infrastructure
• Accelerating urban economic growth in Ukraine
• The labour market in Ukraine: Rebuild better
• Education reforms during and after the war
• The health system
• Transforming Ukraine’s research and development to become a driving force of reconstruction
• How to organise aid

Book

Scaling Up Sustainable Finance and Investment in the Global South

• Dirk Schoenmaker
• Ulrich Volz

1 Nov 2022

• Climate Change
• Central Banking
• Energy
• Global economy
• International trade

• Sustainable Finance

Chapters

• Scaling Up Sustainable Finance and Investment in the Global South: Introduction
• Firms and finance during the green transition
• Mobilising long-term finance in the Global South: Lessons from the ‘South’ and ‘North’
• Unleashing climate investing in Africa
• Bridging green infrastructure and finance
• Inspiring sustainable recovery through ASEAN+3 sustainable bond markets
• The potentials and limitations of blended finance
• Assessing climate risks for long-term investments and the role of multilateral development banks
• The key roles of development banks in financing the structural transformation
• The role of central banks and supervisors in scaling up sustainable finance and investment in the Global South
• Adaptation and resilience finance: The role of ‘alignment’ in scaling up adaptation and resilience finance in the Global South
• Inclusive green finance
• Harnessing the potential of digital finance for financing sustainable development
• Scaling up sustainable finance and investment in the Global South: The case of Latin America and the Caribbean
• The sustainable finance landscape in Brazil
• Scaling up sustainable finance and investment in the Global South: A case study of sub-Saharan Africa
• Political economy imperatives and financing needs: South Africa’s just transition to a lower-carbon economy and a climate-resili
• Scaling up sustainable finance and investment in the Middle East and North Africa
• Scaling up sustainable finance in India
• Sustainable finance in Southeast Asia
• Scaling up sustainable finance and investment in the Global South: China’s experience

Policy insights

Policy Insight 119: Completing the banking union: Economic requirements and legal conditions

• Thorsten Beck
• Philippe Martin
• Franz C. Mayer
• Jean Pisani-Ferry
• Tobias Tröger
• Beatrice Weder Di Mauro
• Nicolas Veron
• Jeromin Zettelmeyer

27 Oct 2022

• European Economic Policy

Report

Geneva 25: Climate and Debt

• Patrick Bolton
• Lee Buchheit
• Mitu Gulati
• Ugo Panizza
• Beatrice Weder Di Mauro
• Jeromin Zettelmeyer

3 Oct 2022

• Climate Change

Chapters

• Climate and Debt: Introduction
• Four perspectives on climate change
• Fiscal constraints
• Debt for climate: Sustainability-linked and green bonds
• Credit for climate: The promise of carbon offsets
• Debt relief for climate? Fiscal support and climate-friendly debt restructuring
• Conclusion: Climate and Debt

Policy insights

Policy Insight 118: Financing Ukraine's Victory

• Nataliia Shapoval
• Jacob Nell
• Tymofiy Mylovanov
• Yuriy Gorodnichenko
• Olena Bilan
• Torbjörn Becker

29 Sep 2022

• Ukraine Initiative

Book

Global Economic Consequences of the War in Ukraine: Sanctions, Supply Chains and Sustainability

• Luis Garicano
• Dominic Rohner
• Beatrice Weder Di Mauro

14 Sep 2022

• Ukraine Initiative

Chapters

• Global Economic Consequences of the War in Ukraine: Introduction
• Winter is coming: Energy policy towards Russia
• Ruble payments: Shielding the ruble from financial sanctions
• Western sanctions on Russia are working, an energy embargo now is a costly distraction
• “Crime and Punishment”: How Russian banks anticipated and dealt with global financial sanctions
• The ‘Global Sanctions Data Base’: Mapping international sanction policies from 1950-2019
• Sanctions and the exchange rate
• A principal, multi-agent model of sanctions
• Beyond macro: Firm-level effects of cutting off Russian energy
• Strength in unity: The economic cost of trade restrictions on Russia
• How to implement an EU embargo on Russian oil
• The price of war: Macroeconomic effects of the 2022 sanctions on Russia
• The simple economics of a tariff on Russian energy imports
• Ukraine invasion: From oil sanctions to accelerating the energy transition
• How to solve Europe’s Russian gas conundrum with a tariff
• What if Germany is cut off from Russian energy?
• Cutting Russia’s fossil fuel exports: Short-term pain for long-term gain
• Implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for its value chains
• How the war in Ukraine may reshape globalisation
• Widespread food insecurity is not inevitable: Avoid escalating food export curbs
• Russia’s war against Ukraine might persistently shift global supply chains
• War in Ukraine, world food prices, and conflict in Africa
• Agricultural and energy importers in the developing world are hit hardest by the Ukraine war’s economic fallout
• China’s overseas lending and the war in Ukraine
• War-induced food price inflation imperils the poor
• Ukraine’s recovery challenge
• The loss of human capital in Ukraine
• Learning the hard way: The effect of conflict on education
• Lessons from history for our response to Ukrainian refugees
• External military threats help to create a stronger European identity and cooperation
• Sanctions and the international monetary system
• The impact of geopolitical conflicts on trade, growth, and innovation: An illustrative simulation study
• A silver lining: Increased urgency for the green transition in Europe

Report

Macroeconomic Policies for Wartime Ukraine

• Torbjörn Becker
• Barry Eichengreen
• Yuriy Gorodnichenko
• Sergei Guriev
• Simon Johnson
• Tymofiy Mylovanov
• Maurice Obstfeld
• Kenneth Rogoff
• Beatrice Weder Di Mauro

12 Aug 2022

• Macroeconomic policy
• Political Economy
• Politics and economics
• Ukraine Initiative

• Preventing Conflict: Policies for Peace
• Political Economy

Chapters

• Macroeconomic Policies for Wartime Ukraine: Introduction
• Economic Landscape
• Initial policy response
• Principles
• Fiscal Policy
• Monetary policy and the exchange rate
• External equilibrium
• Regulatory framework
• Concluding Remarks

Book

The Economics of Brexit: What Have We Learned?

• Jonathan Portes

Chapters

• A short history of the political economy of Brexit
• Brexit Britain in a changing global economy
• The impact of Brexit on UK–EU trade
• Post-Brexit imports, supply chains, and the effect on consumer prices
• The price impacts of trade agreements
• Brexit and UK services trade
• The economics of UK financial services post Brexit
• The economics of the UK’s post-Brexit immigration system
• How is the end of free movement affecting the low-wage labour force in the UK?

Policy insights

Policy Insight 116: How to implement an EU embargo on Russian oil

• Anette Hosoi
• Simon Johnson

20 Apr 2022

• Energy
• Ukraine Initiative

Report

A Blueprint for the Reconstruction of Ukraine

• Torbjörn Becker
• Barry Eichengreen
• Yuriy Gorodnichenko
• Sergei Guriev
• Simon Johnson
• Tymofiy Mylovanov
• Kenneth Rogoff
• Beatrice Weder Di Mauro

7 Apr 2022

• Ukraine Initiative

Chapters

• A Blueprint for the Reconstruction of Ukraine: Introduction
• Basic inputs for the analysis
• Potential sources of aid
• Principles of reconstruction
• Institutional design for funnelling aid into Ukraine
• Stage 0 (while hostilities last): ‘Minimising the damage’
• Reconstruction stage I (months 0-6): ‘Rapid response’
• Reconstruction stage II (months 3-24): Rapid revival of the infrastructure and economy
• Reconstruction stage III: Foundation for long-run growth
• The cost of reconstruction

Book

Prospects of the Global Economy after Covid-19

• Thorsten Beck
• Yung Chul Park

Chapters

• Introduction: Prospects of the Global Economy after Covid-19
• Confronting the challenges of the post-Covid world
• The international financial system after Covid-19
• Finance for the post-Covid world: Risks and opportunities
• Panel Discussions: Prospects of the Global Economy after Covid-19